How to watch Crystal Palace vs Liverpool live: Community Shield stream, TV channel, team news, prediction

Crystal Palace and Liverpool meet at Wembley on Sunday in the FA Community Shield, the traditional curtain-raiser for the domestic season in England.

FA Cup holders Palace will be eager to win even more silverware as Oliver Glasner’s side have had a disrupted summer following their heroic defeat of Manchester City in the FA Cup final at the end of last season. Palace have been demoted from the UEFA Europa League to the Conference League due to rules regarding multi-club ownership but they’ve appealed that decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and will find out the verdict soon. American billionaire Woody Johnson has agreed to buy the majority stake in the club from fellow American John Textor whose Eagles Football group are at the center of the dispute over Palace’s demotion to the Conference League. On the pitch they’ve managed to keep hold of key players Marc Guehi and Eberechi Eze for now.

Liverpool continue to mourn the loss of Diogo Jota after his tragic death in a car accident in Spain over the summer. On the pitch, Arne Slot has added plenty of new players this summer with Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong all arriving to boost his squad. Luis Diaz has left and Darwin Nunez appears to be on the way out too to help offset some of the huge spending, while Alexander Isak is also a target for Liverpool. It’s clear the Reds aim to make the most of their title win last season and are now focused on winning the Champions League, and everything else, too.

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How to watch Crystal Palace vs Liverpool live, stream link and start time

Kick off time: 10am ET Sunday (August 10)

Venue: Wembley Stadium — London

TV Channel/Streaming: ESPN+

Crystal Palace team news, focus

Long-term absentees Chadi Riad and Cheick Doucoure remain out but Crystal Palace have a full squad to choose from aside from that. Oliver Glasner has called for some additions to be made but given the change in ownership dragging on and the uncertainty over which European competition they will play in, there hasn’t been much movement in Palace’s squad this summer. Eze, Guehi, Mateta, Henderson and Wharton are the spine of the team and that remains intact, while the likes of Munoz and Kamada will look to build on a superb end to last season.

Liverpool team news, focus

There are very few injury concerns for Liverpool as they lined up the quartet of Mohamed Salah, Wirtz, Ekitike and Cody Gakpo from the start against Athletic Bilbao at Anfield on Monday. Slot is trying to get the balance right so he can put as much attacking talent on the pitch as possible at the same time. Conor Bradley and Joe Gomez are struggling with injury, while Virgil van Dijk missed the games against Bilbao due to illness and goalkeeper Alisson returned to Brazil for private reasons.

Crystal Palace vs Liverpool prediction

This is always a funny game to predict but it feels like Liverpool will lay down a marker for the levels they’re going to try and reach this season. Given the uncertain offseason Palace have had, they’ll be competitive but it feels like they’ve stood still. Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool.

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